texts that change the conscious parameters of literature, both for readers and writers. from a different angle than these, r.p. blackmur adds: 'poetry: [is] ...language so twisted and posed in a form that...it adds to the stock of available reality.' formerly edited by peter ganick. send texts to Volodymyr Bilyk at ex.ex.lit@gmail.com for consideration...

Friday, April 13, 2018

November 1st 1952: USA carries out first successful test of
a multi-megaton thermonuclear weapon (500 times more
powerful than the bomb dropped onNagasaki) when Ivy Mike is detonated on Elugelab Island in
the Pacific Ocean, vaporizing the island and leaving a large underwater crater
where once it had been.

Two weeks later the first UK record singles chart appears.
Al Martino is number one with ‘Here in My Heart’.